I'm a girl born in the wrong decade. I belong in the 1960s or the 1970s in my opinion. I bleed tie dye, my theme music is anything 1960s rock or 1970s rock or metal. I'm a hippie through and through. But also a hippie who loves old metal music. I believe that violence never solves anything, so why resort to it to solve problems? With all the wars the world has seen, there should be a clue somewhere in there!

Life is what happens when you are making other plans~ John Lennon
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind~Gandhi
The time is always right to do what is right~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando

Plot
-After defeating Drek, they are now celebrities. After things cool down for a while, they are teleported to the Bogon Galaxy by the head of Megacorp, Abercrombie Fizzwidget. This company makes weapons for the Bogon Galaxy. He asks for their assistance in recovering a stolen biological experiment. After being equipped with weapons, he is sent to a flying lab on Planet Aranos to investigate. When he finds it in a cage, a thief breaks in and steals it. He asks Ratchet who he is and he covers his identity by lying

-After informing Fizzwidget of the thief's escape with the Experiment, Ratchet is given coordinates to several planets, where he is chasing the theif. He finally finds the thief on Planet Siberius, a cold, desolate mining planet. He gives the Experiment to Fizzwidget and he is accidentally ejected over Planet Tabora, a desert wasteland planet that has been turned into a mine for Sand Crystals. They run into the thief again and when the mask falls off, it is revealed to be a woman, named Angela Cross.

-She tells them that if that Experiment falls into the wrong hands, the entire glaxy is doomed. On the next planet, Planet Dobbo, Ratchet & Clank discover that what Angela said is true. Watching a video of it eating its handlers, Ratchet & Clank try to warn Fizzwidget about it, but it does not get through as he is distracted during the video.

-Throughout the game, you'll see mentionings of a group called Thugs 4 Less, showing an alien with red eyes speaking with a heavy New York accent. Ratchet & Clank then see a commercial showing th Experiment, which has been dubbed the "Protopet" and is being issued for mass release. In Silver City on Planet Boldan, the Thugs 4 Less crew arrests Ratchet & Clank and imprisons them on Planet Aranos.

-When they escape, they try and find Angela, who has been captured and is now in the company of Thugs 4 Less. On Planet Snivelak, they defeat the Thugs 4 Less leader and rescue Angela. She tells them to split up, her going to her home planet to get her Megacorp ID and they go to Planet Smolg to destroy any Protopets there and also to Planet Damosel to get parts for a weapon to control robots

-After arriving at the Megacorp HQ, they all discover that Captain Qwark had disguised himself as Fizzwidget and planned to release the Protopets as a way of becoming a hero once more. Her tries to use an item called a Helix-o-Morph on them but instead it gets used on the Protopet, making it gigantic. When they defeat the Protopet, Captain Qwark comes out and burps up Angela's Helix-o-Morph and it returns the Protopet to it's original state.

Gameplay
-Same gameplay as the first one. You control Ratchet, a Lombax from a 3rd person view. Only in this game, you are in a new galaxy, the "Bogon" galaxy.
-Has 18 new weapons and also a few weapons from the previous one, such as the RYNO, which has been given a new look
-When each weapon is used alot, it is upgraded. And also, when you kill enemies, your health level, also known as your Nanotech bar, upgrades, so more enemies that die, the higher your health will go
-Certain things from the first Ratchet & Clank make a return, such as the Swingshot
-In this game, in addition to the weapons vendores, you can also buy armor from armor vendors. And instead of it being Gadgetron, it is now Megacorp
-Bolts are still the main currency
-You can also participate in what is called "Maxi-games", games that you can play to earn bolts. These include Arena battles, hoverbike races, spherical worlds, space combat

Weapons/Gadgets/Items
-Swingshot: zip from one area to the next
-Blitz Gun: R&C version of a shotgun. Shoots blasts of energy similar to a shotgun
-Seeker: Small armed weapons that hover around you and attack enemies nearby
-Lava Gun: Shoots hot lava and after upgraded, shoots balls of hot magma
-Lancer: Machine pistol
-Gravity bomb: Small nuclear bomb launcher
-Chopper: sends out spinning ninja blades
-Pulse Rifle: Sniper rifle
-Spiderbot Glove: Send out controllable spider robots
-Plasma Coil: send out balls of electricity
-Sheepinator: turn enemies into sheep!
-Zodiac: As the screen turns white, enemies turn to powdery ash
-Thermator: freeze water or melt ice
-Tractor Beam: Allows you to move objects with a glowing orange target